Folgende Beiträge enthalten das Schlagwort: anniversaries

Photo by Jay Reed. Just before the end of World War II, vets started coming home en masse with visions of importing and driving the zippy little roadsters they saw overseas. A group of well-off men i...

Much like in entertainment, the show must go on in racing. That’s even after incidents that threaten to sideline the entire field of cars, such as the water-in-the-fuel episode at the 1976 24 Hours o...

Amid the big announcements from GM this past week came the news that the company was canceling a number of models, including the Impala, which this year turned 60. Eric Lawrence at the Detroit Free P...

Established in 2000, the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera recently got treated to a full renovation. It’s now, according to Piaggio, the largest Italian museum dedicated to two-wheeled transportation. Tha...

Images courtesy Long Beach Autorama, Jim Lattin. Like many racers in pursuit of the land-speed record, Frank Lockhart had talent, nerves of steel, and boundless determination. Also like many racers i...

Did we just miss the 200th anniversary of the first motorcycle? Over at the Vintagent, Paul d’Orleans presents us with possible evidence for a steam-powered Vélocipédraisiavaporianna, reportedly buil...

Photos by Matthew Litwin. More than a mere shortened Javelin, the original two-seater AMX was a true sports car in its own right, and for its 50th anniversary next year, AMC enthusiasts are planning ...

The car many of us think of when we picture a Mercedes-Benz Stroke 8: a yellow, diesel-powered 240D (of the W115 range). This one is a 1974 with the five-cylinder 3-liter engine. Photos courtesy of D...

Photos courtesy FCA Media. Most histories depict Chrysler’s purchase of AMC as one done merely to gain the Jeep name and discard everything else, yet the former gained far more than a brand from the ...

Photo by Joe Clark for EPA’s Documerica, via Library of Congress. Springwells was aptly named. Situated along the Rogue River just southwest of Detroit’s city limits, the farming community operated a...

Image via IMCDB. Yeah, the scripts were repetitive, the violence cartoonish, and the continuity near-nonexistent. So what, we children of the Eighties tuned into The A-Team every week for one thing o...

F40 and Ferrari’s factory — take one. All photos by the author. Once in a decade, there is a moment of the year when it is possible to see a literal herd of prancing horses gathering together to cele...

Photo and collage by the author. There’s the car, of course, perhaps the most successful attempt at an American microcar. But there’s also the anti-baldness device, the proximity fuze, the refrigerat...

Not the 1867 racer. Image courtesy Grace’s Guide. Lore holds that the first automobile race took place after the second automobile was built. The historical record, however, shows that nearly a centu...

Photos by the author. Discussions of performance cars from American Motors usually start and stop with the AMX and Javelin, but it was the muscular one-year-only Rambler Rebel that outsped its contem...

Original DKM Wankel-designed engine prototype. Photo by Ralf Pfeifer. As the world waits on Mazda to maybe possibly announce that it will resurrect the rotary engine, the compact pistonless internal ...

I briefly considered scrapping the entire Four-Links format this week to focus entirely on Lucas Reilly’s longread on Clair Patterson, the chemist/geologist who for decades doggedly pursued the evide...

Old and new: A 125 S replica and a 2017 La Ferrari Aperta outside the factory. Images courtesy Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari never envisioned himself an industrialist. He was, first and foremost, a driver, w...

Still from “ 27 Hours to La Paz.” It started out as little more than a lark, an informal competition among off-road racers to see who could make it from one end of the Baja peninsula to the other the...